Been hit by BianLian ransomware? Here's your get-out-of-jail-free card
Avast issues a free decryptor so victims can get their data back
Security18 Jan 2023 | 3
Avast
NortonLifeLock and Avast $8.6b deal gets provisional yes from UK regulator
Plus: Even market authorities can't seem to keep up with Microsoft's Defender branding
Security03 Aug 2022 | 7
Google updates Chrome to squash actively exploited WebRTC Zero Day
How sad – this looks like a fine excuse to avoid video conferences for a while
Patches05 Jul 2022 | 11
UK regulator puts NortonLifeLock merger with Avast on ice
Security vendors now have 5 working days to explain to the Competition and Markets Authority why it's wrong
Security16 Mar 2022 | 12
Avast, ye takeover lawyers! NortonLifeLock to acquire security rival
$8B deal will create smallbiz and consumer security monster
Security11 Aug 2021 | 13
NortonLifeLock sniffs around Avast, announces 'advanced discussions' for acquisition
Company now has 28 days to make up its mind
Security15 Jul 2021 | 12
Avast pulls plug on insecure JavaScript engine in its security software suite
Code interpreter ran with admin-level access, not sand-boxed, potentially open to remote-code execution
Security13 Mar 2020 | 6
Avast's AntiTrack promised to protect your privacy. Instead, it opened you to miscreant-in-the-middle snooping
HTTPS traffic could be intercepted, manipulated, thanks to sloppy proxy
Security10 Mar 2020 | 11
Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot
'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit
Security30 Jan 2020 | 20
Mozilla locks nosy Avast, AVG extensions out of Firefox store amid row over web privacy
Add-ons accused of slurping every URL netizens visit
Security04 Dec 2019 | 76
Avast lobs intruders into the 'Abiss': Miscreants tried to tamper with CCleaner after sneaking into network via VPN
Software used by millions not compromised this time, says biz
Security21 Oct 2019 | 21
Stalking cheap Chinese GPS child trackers is as easy as 123... 456 – because that's the default password on 600k+ of these gizmos
It's 2019 and, like, duh, insecurity comes as standard
Edge + IoT05 Sep 2019 | 32
Fresh stalkerware crop pops up on Google's Android Play Store, swiftly yanked offline
130,000 have already downloaded creepware
Security18 Jul 2019 | 22
Merry Xmas, fellow code nerds: Avast open-sources decompiler
RetDec will turn binaries into something more legible
Security15 Dec 2017 | 31
Avast urges devs to secure toolchains after hacked build box led to CCleaner disaster
VB2017 Timeline of compromise goes back to April
Security06 Oct 2017 | 23
CCleaner targeted top tech companies in attempt to lift IP
Infected Avast tool's payload went after the likes of Microsoft, Intel and Cisco, hit 20 targets
Security21 Sep 2017 | 49
Downloaded CCleaner lately? Oo, awks... it was stuffed with malware
OK, OK, well the 2.27 million victims were not Reg readers
Security18 Sep 2017 | 127
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
Updated Now that's cast-iron antivirus
Security11 May 2017 | 42
Avast woos AVG shareholders with $1.3bn buyout offer
Merger is to corner market rather than snaffle rival's tech
Channel07 Jul 2016 | 16
F*cking DLL! Avast false positive trashes Windows code libraries
Avast there indeed, matey, wail admins as rogue guard dog savages their jugular
Channel07 May 2015 | 18
Avast there: MEELLIONS of Androiders scuttled by 'adware' game app
'Software flung naughty adverts at screens'
Security03 Feb 2015 | 46
Home Wi-Fi security's just as good as '90s PC security! Wait, what?
'Fess up: half of you lot haven't changed your default creds
Security08 Dec 2014 | 51
You stupid BRICK! PCs running Avast AV can't handle Windows fixes
Fix issued, fingers pointed, forums in flames
Security24 Nov 2014 | 38
That 'wiped' Android phone you bought is stuffed with NAKED SELFIES – possibly
Infosec bods sound alarm after copping eyefuls of nudie pics
Security09 Jul 2014 | 48
Antivirus firm Avast! takes down forums after breach
You know the drill: change your passwords and prepare for the worst
Channel27 May 2014 | 13
PayPal privates exposed after breach on SECURITY shop
Aghast Avast: It was a reseller, not us
Security12 Mar 2013 | 7
Avast! Mobile Security
Android App of the Week Prepare to repel boarders
Applications07 Feb 2012 | 31
Avast false alarm hits Steam's weekend gamers
'I am sworn to carry your burdens'
Security06 Feb 2012 | 18
Avast buys Android thiefbuster developer
Reset-proof tech combats smartphone thieves
Security23 Sep 2011 | 1
Trojan script gets stuck on superglue site
Sticky situation for malware
Security10 Aug 2011 | 11
Avast still focused on Windows, despite new Mac security app
Czech firm aims to checkmate VXers
Channel27 Jun 2011 | 11
Avast alert finds WHOLE WEB malign
Evil is everywhere!
Security12 Apr 2011 | 37
Regular domains beat smut sites at hosting malware
99 to 1, study finds
Security30 Jun 2010 | 8
New avast freebie security scanner aims to keel-haul MS
Updated Free 5.0 tweaked to work faster on multiple cores
Security20 Jan 2010 | 27
Dodgy Avast update classifies multiple legit files as malign
Initiates needless Chicken Little-style panic
Security07 Dec 2009 | 11
Biting the hand that feeds IT
